when googlebot first comes to my site...it goes to a page deep in a folder ie. www.domain.com/sub/sub/blah.html instead of visiting the homepage why is that?
Googlebot always goes directly to pages never to domain-root to start a visit - except when G wants to visit just your stat page hence whatever the cycle to revisit is at G they have a set of pages to visit for each run - on a site with frequent fresh content the number of Gbot visits per months may be several times the nr of pages your site has the time when bots started at / then crawled all site hundreds or thousands of pages at once are long time past